LINKIN PARK - "Not Alone"

With the song ‘Not Alone’, LINKIN PARK wanted to put its grain of sand to the rehabilitation training in Haiti through its music.

We want to share this video with you and we hope it will not leave you indifferent to the terrible tragedy that this country suffered last January.

TSUNAMI. DECEMBER 2004.

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing nearly 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 15 meters high. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest hit, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph.This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes.It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska.

PROJECT IN GALICIA (REGION IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SPAIN). 2007.

This was a Project created by Joseph Torres. It consisted of providing workforce protection and personal safety equipments, such as fire fighting clothing, to the firefighters in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
After having stayed in this city several months in the aftermath of the tsunami in 2004, Joseph promised those local firefighters to bring them suitable clothing to work, given the fact that they only had three plastic intervention jackets and rubber fire fighting boots.
He went throughout every Fire Station in Galicia and he got 1,275kg of workforce clothing donated by different Fire Stations and Firefighters coming from the 4 Galician provinces. Therefore, Joseph sent the safety material collected to his counterparts in Aceh despite the multiple bureaucratic and logistic problems he had to face.
In the end, a project and a person responsible of it were the only ones that made the completion of the project possible.

DOCTORS OF THE WORLD SPAIN. INDONESIA. 2005.

After the tsunami in 2004, hundreds of NGOs worldwide deployed to Indonesia during the post-emergency phase to undertake several tasks.
On the one hand, Doctors of the World Spain was among them and it worked hardly in different areas of Sumatra, this time in Calang and Banda Aceh to be precise, regions highly struck by the earthquake. The creation of permanent hospitals to treat local people in those areas was one of its purposes.
On the other hand, members of Firefighters without Borders Spain contributed to ensure that those fixed purposes were complied with and that the completion of the Doctors of the World Spain projects was successful.

EARTHQUAKE IN PADANG ON INDONESIA’S SUMATRA ISLAND

An earthquake of 7.6 in magnitude on the Richter scale. Firefighters without Borders Spain and United Firefighters without Borders Spain were at the seismic activity’s epicentre. In this occasion, rescue operations were carried out as well as different home rehabilitation projects, tents for schools and water purification methods were developed with posteriority.

A FIRE DRILL IN THE CITY OF VELEZ, MALAGA. 2008.

Firefighters, health workers, Civil Guard members, National Police officers, Emergency Military Unit team (UME) and Civil Protection members arrived to Velez from many parts of Spain with the aim of giving a professional character to the different scenes and events created for the simulation of all kinds of accidents where all the beforementioned professional ones must take part in.

TENERIFE – AN EARTHQUAKE DRILL OF 7.2 IN MAGNITUDE. MARCH 2010.

As every year, different drills are carried out throughout the Spanish peninsula and islands to provide the FWB Spain members with bigger skills for the rescue services. To achieve these projects, it is created a mobilization of different resources, whether humanitarian or material, as well as the structuring and learning of the tasks execution in compliance with all the State bodies and security forces. As a result, faults are found and rectified and new members of the future rescue teams are assessed at the same time.